The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
GEORGE ORWELLThe creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
GEORGE ORWELLTo die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELLIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
GEORGE ORWELLThere was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
GEORGE ORWELLThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELLHappiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELLMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELLOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELLPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELLNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
GEORGE ORWELLAt 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLLet’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELLUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
GEORGE ORWELL